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China has crowned its best circumcision surgeon, after hosting an utterly bizarre competition. More than 100 of China's top surgeons took part in the three-hour-long online contest in December last ...

Promising trials hinted that circumcision could lower rates of HIV infection, but until now, researchers didn’t fully understand why. Now, in a study published in the journal mBio, scientists say that ...

Circumcision is a surgical operation to remove the foreskin of the penis. An adult may decide to undergo this procedure for religious, cosmetic, medical, or cultural reasons. Circumcision is fairly ...

Beyond physician preference and cosmetic outcome, pain is a discriminating variable when evaluating circumcision instruments. Three studies have evaluated circumcision associated pain with the use of ...

The purpose of this investigation was to compare the effectiveness of dorsal penile nerve block and topical lidocaine–prilocaine anesthesia techniques for pain relief during circumcision. In total, 18 ...

Circumcision is one of the oldest surgical procedures in the world and holds an important place in Judaism as the brit mila. Here's everything you should know. An ancient but still common surgical ...

A Forward analysis of government data shows that 87% of the baby boys born in West Virginia were circumcised in 2009. Two thousand miles west, in Nevada, the procedure was performed on only 12% of ...

The controversy over male circumcision has once again reared its ugly head. Once favored as a means to reduce the risk of infections and sexually transmitted diseases, then shunned in recent decades ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested there may be a link between autism and circumcision while reasserting the unproven theory that Tylenol causes the disorder — and medical experts are ...

Promising trials hinted that circumcision could lower rates of HIV infection, but until now, researchers didn’t fully understand why. Now, in a study published in the journal mBio, scientists say that ...